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Government shutdown nears as short-term spending bill fails

President Trump believes the politics over illegal migration are a distraction technique be applied by Democrat.

A shutdown of the U.S. government was looking closer to a certainty late Friday after a short-term spending bill failed to advance in the Senate.

The bill to keep government operating through mid-February failed after 10 p.m ., after a vote to end debate did not garner the 60 referendums needed for passage, the Washington Post reported.

The vote left little hope that alternative solutions bargain would be reached before a midnight EST deadline arrived.

Earlier Friday, President Donald Trump seemed pessimistic that a deal could be reached in time.

“Not looking good for our great Military or Safety& Security on the very dangerous Southern Border, ” the president tweeted. “Dems want a Shutdown in order to help diminish the great success of the Tax Cuts, and what they are doing for our booming economy.”

Not looking good for our great Military or Safety& Security on the very dangerous Southern Border. Dems want a Shutdown in order to help diminish the great success of the Tax Cuts, and what they are doing for our booming economy.

Negotiations, however, were continuing through the evening, with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky ., Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y ., and House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis ., still working to pass a resolution to keep the government open, White House sources said.

Earlier in the working day, demonstrators were seen protesting in support of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals( DACA) program in the Russell Senate Office Building. Democrats are refusing to back a short-term spending bill unless it includes protections for illegal immigrants brought to the country as children.

“Republicans- who control the House, Senate, and WH- are on the verge of inducing #TrumpShutdown a reality since they are refuse to protect DREAMers and provide long-term certainty for our military, the opioid crisis, CHIP, and other key issues, ” House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi tweeted late Friday night.

Here’s where we’re at:

Republicans- who control the House, Senate, and WH- are on the brink of making #TrumpShutdown a reality since they are refuse to protect DREAMers and provide long-term certainty for our military, the opioid crisis, CHIP, and other key issues.

“We had a long and detailed meeting, ” Schumer said in a statement. “We discussed all of the major outstanding issues, we made some progress, but we still have a good number of discrepancies. The deliberations will continue.”

According to a White House source, Schumer arrived in the Oval Office and presented the president with a listing of demands on domestic issues that went well beyond merely DACA. The chairperson listened to Schumer and seemed perplexed as Schumer rattled off his agenda items, the source said. The president told Schumer he wasn’t going to get all of those demands in a spending bill.

Schumer, the source said, did appear open to considering a continuing resolution that would keep the government funded for five days. The official White House position is still a 30 -day extension.

Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney on Friday accused the Democrats of opposing a bill that contains nothing they are against.

Democrats seemed to be aware of the importance of messaging, with Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass ., taking to the Senate floor with an image declaring the logjam a “Trump Shutdown, ” quoting a tweet from President Trump from May saying “our country needs a good ‘shutdown.'”

Markey explosion Republican complaining about the threat of a shutdown, telling them to “spare me your crocodile tears.”

The Republican-dominated House of Representatives passed a one-month bill Thursday evening by a vote of 230 -1 97 that broke down largely along party line, with 11 Republican voting no and six Democrats voting yes.

Senate Democrat have said that Democrats want any spending bill to include a fix for DACA. Trump repealed the order in September, and gave Congress a deadline of March to come up with a legislative fix.

“Unless we pass the #DreamAct, I won’t supporting another short-term funding bill, ” Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill ., tweeted Thursday. “Our Dreamer have waited far too long for a chance to be a part of this country’s future.”

Republicans had hoped to back Democrat into a corner by attaching a six-year CHIP extension to the bill. But Democrat have so far rejects to budge.

Republicans have repeatedly set the blamed firmly on Democrats’ positioning on DACA as the reason for the looming shutdown.

“Apparently they believe the issue of illegal migration is more important than anything else, than the government services the American people depend on, ” McConnell said.

President Trump has repeatedly advised Congress to keep the government open, warning that a shutdown will harm the U.S. military. The White House announced that Trump would not travel to Florida, as previously scheduled, until the continuing solving is signed.

Should Congress miss the Friday night deadline, it is far from clear if the government will actually shut down immediately. Fox News is told that the Trump administration will not “weaponize” the shutdown, closing various monuments and national parks, to create a “show” as critics say the Obama administration did in a 2013 closure.